President of the Military Officers Association at NPSPosted 6/7/2006 4:00:00 PM, US Navy Photo by MC2 Mike DiFranco.

Vice Adm. Norbert R. Ryan, Jr., (Ret), the President of the Military Officers Association of America (center), speaks with Cmdr. Tim Hobbs, (left) and Capt. Starr King (right), the recipients of the Military Officers Association Joint Service Warfare Award, which Vice Adm. Ryan presented to them. The award is presented to NPS military faculty members who have contributed most significantly to the study, implementation, and spirit of joint-service warfare.(Released)

Professor Tony Healey (second from left) and Cmdr. Doug Horner (left) co-principal investigators for the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Center for AUV Research showcase some of the autonomous vehicles that will be deployed in an upcoming field experiment. The 9-day series of experiments scheduled in June is an NPS and U.S. Special Operations Forces project that will field test operations of autonomous vehicles in a collaborative networking environment. The unmanned vehicles include three types of light weight aircraft, and two different unmanned ground vehicles with a mixture of onboard sensors that when combined create a full spectrum battlefield picture. Also in the experiment is a lighter than air platform. “The eventual goal is to combine different classes of unmanned vehicles working in a collaborative fashion,” said Horner.
Continued from left to right are: Hag Seong Kim; Sean Kragelund; NPS President Rear Adm. Richard Wells; NPS student Cmdr. Duane Davis; Dean Jim Kays; Prof. Don Brutzman; Kwang Song; NPS student Lt. Cmdr. Steve Vonheeder; NPS student Lt. Tyler Furukawa; NPS student Lt. Mike Dolbec; Jeff Weekley and Prof. Kevin Squire.(Released)

As part of the NPS Foundation’s monthly Information Briefs, China expert, H. Lyman Miller (left) discussed relationships between Taiwan, China and the United States, in a program called “The Taiwan Question and American Policy Dilemmas.” Miller, an associate professor of Chinese affairs in the Department of National Security Affairs (NSA) here and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, provided an in-depth historical perspective of China’s impact on their region and its future global potential in economics and political affairs. Behind Miller are NSA Asian Studies students (left to right) Air Force Capt. Terry Vance, U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Ivan Kanapathy and Air Force Capt. Tracy Glazer, who served as a panel, sharing opinions of China’s role in world events.(Released)